Perhaps a useful feature would be an extra verbose option ("-vv") that
would print more clamscan status, like loading signatures.On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 7:32 PM G.W. Haywood via clamav-users < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > On Fri, 22 Nov 2019, Rick Graham via clamav-users wrote: > > > I inadvertently miss-typed the commandline and I was surprised clamscan > > executed for 48 seconds. How was clamscan spending its time? > > > > # clamscan ==help > > ... > > You really need to understand how ClamAV works in order to use it > sensibly and effectively. There's documentation at > > http://www.clamav.net/documents > > In your example clamscan was not "searching". It spent the 48 seconds > loading signatures; see > > http://www.clamav.net/documents/scanning > > If you'd done that on one of my systems it would have been more like > four minutes. :/ > > -- > > 73, > Ged. > > _______________________________________________ > > clamav-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users > > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml >
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